Assessing difficulties in the hospital treatment of children and adolescents.
There are few studies of treatment difficulty with children and adolescents. The authors describe a preliminary phase of research in this area, specifically the development of a set of rating scales to assess factors in treatment difficulty, a study of interrater reliability, and factor analyses of the content of these scales. The next steps in this ongoing research project are outlined.
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Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS 66601-0829.
Murphy
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O'Malley
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Hyland
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Cornsweet
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McParland
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Coyne
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011594:Psychometrics